Music

In 2013, Mississippi rapper Big K.R.I.T. was one of the most celebrated rapper/producers on Earth: signed to Def Jam, shouted out as Kendrick Lamar’s competition on his “Control” verse and regarded as the future-minded heir to the bass-heavy “country rap” pioneered by UGK. His second album, the following year’s Cadillactica, …

Maroon 5‘s Adam Levine performed a robust live version of Chris Cornell‘s 1992 solo track “Seasons” on Howard Stern‘s SiriusXM radio show. Levine adopted a mournful, bluesy tone for the track, crooning over a pair of interlocking 12-string acoustic guitars. Levine also paid tribute to Cornell in an interview on …

A new behind-the-scenes video offers a poignant look at the studio sessions that produced Gord Downie‘s forthcoming posthumous record, Introduce Yerself. The frontman of the beloved Canadian rock outfit the Tragically Hip died October 18th after a two-year battle with brain cancer. Introduce Yerself is a 23-track double album that …

Lee Ranaldo unveiled a surreal new video for “Uncle Skeleton,” a track off the former Sonic Youth guitarist’s latest solo album, Electric Trim. The Elisa Ambrogio-directed clip mixes live-action and animation sequences that pack plenty of strange images befitting both the Halloween season and the song’s title. Throughout the clip, …

Out on the road there’s plenty of downtime before the show. Throughout his Soul2Soul 2017 outing with wife Faith Hill, Tim McGraw has been using some of that time to jam on classic covers backstage with the artists opening the concerts. The latest installment of the “Backstage With…” hootenannies features …

Cardi B performed her confident Number One hit “Bodak Yellow” with support from a phalanx of dancers on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on Wednesday. The rapper sauntered onstage clad entirely in pink as the ringing melody of “Bodak Yellow” blared through the Brooklyn Academy of Music, where Kimmel’s show has set …

Billy Corgan kicked off his solo, acoustic Ogilala tour this weekend with a pair of shows at Brooklyn, New York’s Murmrr Theater that featured a complete performance of his new album along with selections from his entire career. In all the press he’s done around the release of the album …

Metric singer Emily Haines unveiled a haunting new video for “Legend of the Wild Horse,” a song off Choir of the Mind, her first solo album with the Soft Skeleton in over a decade. Continuing the story previously outlined in Haines’ videos for “Planets,” “Statuette,” and “Fatal Gift,” the singer …

The “East Texas vibe” as she calls it, of Lee Ann Womack‘s upcoming LPThe Lonely, the Lonesome & the Goneis a seemingly dark, somber one if her performance of the track “All the Trouble” on Friday’s Megyn Kelly Today show is any indication. Womack was introduced by the host, who …

Here are two great indie-rock songwriters getting together to spool out autumnal guitar prettiness and converse about life, art and whatever. As collaborators, they’re a perfect match: Kurt Vile is a master of zoned-out fingerpicking and droll longhaired jive; Courtney Barnett is a Dylanesque image ninja who can turn everyday …